Audio Messages

What is the purpose of Christmas? Christmas means that there is truth — truth that everyone should believe. Jesus declared that He came as the key witness of this truth, and His followers testify to this truth, also. When Christ is in you, you will realize how much is at stake.

Maybe your sorrows feel especially heavy at this time of year. God has not abandoned you. Jesus understands what you are going through. With Christ in you, call on Jesus and take comfort in His nearness whenever you are hurting.

Jesus was not into commercialism, but somehow we have managed to commercialize His birth. How does a consumeristic approach to God kill worship? That's what this message is about as we "unwrap commercialism."

In today's message we unwrap a familiar story to find meaning for our lives today that gives us hope in a broken world through Jesus our savior.

What does it mean to be made for more? It does not mean you were made for more stuff, not more power, not more money not more possessions. You were not born primarily for these things. Pastor John Stillman takes a deeper look into Psalm 122 to answer the question what were we made for.

Jesus’ church has been blessed and built up by a long and wonderful practice of sharing words of encouragement, direction, and praise. In this message, Pastor John provides a message to the church on how to commend the good in others while praising the glory of God.

What's holding you back from following Jesus? In this message, Pastor John looks at the story of a man who had been told lots of things that, before that moment, at least in his mind, kept him from making that kind of commitment. But then he hears of how Jesus came to remove the barriers that had kept him from a relationship with God.

A recent study found that Christians are not all that different from non-Christians when it comes to navigating their lives with compassion, understanding, mercy, and forgiveness. In this message, Pastor John gives a hopeful plan for having hard conversations that navigate towards unity.

We live in very polarized times. We might want to ignore hard conversations or try the ways that make sense to the world, but our aim is to honor Christ. In this message, Pastor John shares a Biblical perspective on how to have hard conversations.